Affinity Publisher - Merging two files

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I wanted to ask about merging two files. I have opened two separate files in Publisher. First one has 2 pages and second one has 4 pages only. Both are PDF and I want to merge them together into one PDF file. Drag and drop doesn't work. Opening new file opens page as new document. Would anybody suggest a work around for this?

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there is no merging of Publisher files. You could 'Place' the second PDF file into the first. But the placed file is treated like a 'closed box' so you cannot shuffle around the pages.

If your goal is only to merge PDF files without further editing I would suggest to use a specialised tool just for PDF handling. There are many out there. I use successfully PDFEscape (https://www.pdfescape.com/) for this task.

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It works just like I described above
With one addition that all pages linked or embedded are becoming in the working file
Or delete the ones you don't need from opening them in a new tab(the edit document route)

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Drag/drop or place pdf one onto page
Select on the toolbar which page to show on this page
Duplicate page and choose another page from the toolbar to show on this second page

etc.etc.

Drag/drop or place pdf two onto a new page
Select on the toolbar which page to show on this page
Duplicate page and choose other page from the toolbar to show on this second page

etc.etc.

Thanks for the useful tip. However, I found this method a bit difficult if I have several pages to merge to. Plus, there are some limitations, like you have to align the content of the inserted page manually. Appreciate anyway.

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If the placed page is same size as document page it should not be too difficult. Admittedly Publisher has the weirdness that it places using centre of the placed graphic as placing point, not upper left as all other softwares. Still, Publisher place tool snaps to page centre though you have to hunt it a bit.